White shark (Carcharodon carcharias), Thinned satellite data (PSAT and SPOT), 1:2 observation:pseudo-absence ratio, Full extent, all covariates (u and v become vel_mag), evaluated using all metrics

Random Forest Nowcast and Forecast

Boosted Trees Nowcast and Forecast

Maxnet Trees Nowcast and Forecast

GAM Nowcast and Forecast

GLM Nowcast and Forecast

Metrics

Metrics by model type

model_type	accuracy	boyce_cont	roc_auc	tss_max	brier_class
rf	0.9377163	0.9379817	0.9907458	0.9291580	NA
bt	0.8823529	0.9444279	0.9323821	0.7408415	NA
maxnet	0.6470588	0.9356778	0.7659386	0.4177553	NA
gam	0.7670127	0.8805163	0.7918634	0.4748760	0.1723723
glm	0.6885813	0.8873888	0.7035768	0.3710691	0.1983963

Variable Importance